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Because they are professionals. Software engineers, lawyers, doctors... skilled people who have creative control often put pride into their work as a means of expressing their talent and enthusiasm, even if it doesn’t make a direct tangible difference.

Who cares is the people who have to experience the design which doesn’t stand on its own (i.e. customers or users).

Because design/illustration can be demonstrably meaningful and/or useful and/or informative &c. Whereas this is a nullification: at this point in time [as it reaches a kind of saturation point] it's a mass-produceable toolkit for generating inoffensive fluff to fill space. In the sense that it cannot fail at doing nothing much, then sure, it has succeeded. But the goal is to...do what exactly? It's kitsch. Good design tends to take quite a bit of thought: this takes very little. Hence, lazy.